Chance of a lifetime

By Deborah Kent

Subjects: Mississippi Civil War, 1861-1865, Horses, fiction, Horses, Slavery, Fiction, Children's fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Juvenile fiction, History, Morgan horse

Description: Away from home during the battle of Vicksburg, fourteen-year-old Jacquetta returns to find her parents gone and the plantation in Yankee hands, but with help from a slave girl, she devises a plan to rescue the family's Morgan horses.